BRANCH MEETING

The first meeting of the New Year will be on Thursday 5th January, starting at 8.15pm. The venue is the Spinning Mule, Nelson Square. The meeting includes voting for the Winter Pub of the Season, the branch Cider Pub of the Year and it is also the last chance to nominate a pub for the next Good Beer Guide.

BRANCH VACANCY

The branch urgently needs a volunteer to take on the role of Membership Secretary. Please consider if you can spare an hour or two a month to help out – support will be available from the committee. If you are interested of need more information, please contact the branch chair Graham Walsh.

Branch Membership Secretary Role Description

Purpose of the Role

To recruit and retain CAMRA members and improve the level of activation within the Branch.

Key Activities

To contact new Branch members welcoming them to the Branch.

To contact local members with information on current branch and national campaigns and activities and any local membership benefits eg discounts at local pubs or beer festivals..

To encourage lapsed members to rejoin by contacting them with details of how their money is spent and what benefits they get from being a member.

To assist the central Membership Team in keeping details of local members up to date eg passing on email address changes.

To act as the link between the central Membership Team and the local branch on membership matters including local queries.

To encourage the Branch to maximize all possible avenues to recruit members eg placing membership forms in pubs and running membership stands at suitable events such as beer festivals (both CAMRA run and non CAMRA run).

To ensure that new faces (particularly new members) are warmly welcomed at any event they attend.

Work with the Branch Chairman to encourage all Branch members to undertake some CAMRA activity eg distributing local Branch magazines or pub surveying.

To monitor and report back to Branch meetings Branch membership numbers eg total number, lapsed and new members, which are accessible via CAMRA’s national membership database.

To work with the Young Members Representative and Student Liaison Officers (if there are post holders) to maximize young members recruitment and retention.

Code of Conduct

To ensure that the data accessed from the membership database is used in line with CAMRA’s Database Protection Policy (advice is available from CAMRA’s central Membership Team if in doubt – see Support Section).

To refrain from putting forward any personal points of view that is against CAMRA’s policy or might bring the Campaign into disrepute.

To refrain from action or inaction that would bring the Campaign into disrepute.

Time commitment

Depending on the size of the branch it could be up to an hour every week.

Attendance at most branch meetings would be ideal.

If a branch is involved with festivals and similar, attending and manning membership stands would be best practice.

ABOUT CAMRA

CAMRA campaigns for real ale, real pubs and consumer rights. We are an independent, voluntary organisation with over 100,000 members and have been described as the most successful consumer group in Europe. CAMRA promotes good-quality real ale and pubs, as well as acting as the consumer’s champion in relation to the UK and European beer and drinks industry. We aim to:

Protect and improve consumer rights

Promote quality, choice and value for money

Support the public house as a focus of community life

Campaign for greater appreciation of traditional beers, ciders and perries as part of our national heritage and culture

Seek improvements in all licensed premises and throughout the brewing industry

Why not join us today if you care about great quality real ale and pubs?

LINKS

Bolton Trading Standards – If you have concerns about short measures, top-ups refused – in short, if you are being ripped off, contact Trading Standards. Click Here or phone 01204 336586

Public Transport – Bus and Train timetables and route planners for Greater Manchester are available via Transport for Greater Manchester. Click here to visit their website, or phone 0871 200 2233 (7am to 8pm, Monday to Friday, and 8am to 8pm at weekends and bank holidays)

Not From Bolton? Details of other Greater Manchester branches are available by clicking here, and for further afield at the CAMRA national website – click here.

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME

PUBLICANS: let us know what beers you are currently serving and if you are hosting any ale-related events – click here.

PUB-GOERS and FESTIVAL ORGANISERS – what’s happening with your local pubs? Are you organising a beer festival? If you have any news to share, click here .

NEWS AND RESOURCES – Have you been on a pub crawl or had an excellent pub experience? Have you seen a great ale-related website that you think we should link to? Or is there anything at all that you have come across that will be of interest to visitors to this site? Tell us about it – click here.

JOIN CAMRA

Exclusive members newspaper – ‘What’s Brewing’ A monthly colour newspaper informing you of beer and pub news and detailing events and beer festivals from around the country.

Exclusive members magazine – ‘BEER’ A quarterly copy of the magazine ‘BEER’ which is packed with superb features on pubs, beers and breweries.

Free / Discounted entry to over 160 beer festivals Free or discounted admission to the 160 + beer festival that CAMRA organise, including the Great British Beer Festival.

Branch Social Activities CAMRA is organised into 200 branches that cover the UK. Each branch runs a variety of socials events for their members.

Active Campaigning Have the chance to campaign to save pubs and breweries under threat of closure, for the right to receive a Full Pint and a reduction in beer duty that will help Britain’s brewing industry survive.

Discounted Membership of the CAMRA Beer Club The CAMRA Beer Club has been set up to provide a home delivery service to enthusiasts. All CAMRA members receive a £5 discount on each mixed case of 20 beers.

Book Discounts CAMRA produce a variety of books every year and as a member you are entitled to discounts on all of the books we produce including CAMRA’s best-selling, annual Good Beer Guide.